so what we're going to do is first
we're going to take everything and touch and delete all our notes on the network and as
we double click we are going to add a folder and we're going to point the folder at a spot in
our computer and so I just happen to put something on my desktop which I labeled video and picks so
I'm going to select that and it's going to show basically uh well I didn't select it right so I
have to set video clicks and I have to click it twice and then hit open it's going to show all my
video and my picture files within this folder and I'm putting pictures in this for a reason to uh
that we didn't do in class but to also show you a different example so um after a folder we
are going to right click and we are going to the a select so we have this two component of dots
and this is basically giving our folder and our select as we change and here we're also going to
include first row so this is our path right here which is basically showing our name and our path
are zero point in in this dat and then our files obviously underneath so here's the folder and this
is going to be our selection tool for the folder and then we're going to select index so
by index and it's showing again there's seven items in here with a zero point
being one or the starting row being zero so what we did in class two is we also added a
a clock and so we took a clock and we picked up the actual seconds from here and we deleted a
bunch of stuff just as an example but what I'm going to do is I'm going to then right click
on here again I'm going to use a select and instead of deleting all that I am just going to
select the seconds so we have our section right here and we have our clock and we're selecting
our seconds and we are going to put a limit so now our limit is going to be trying to eliminate what we have in this folder so
how many files we have in this folder right and we have seven right now and and part of the thing I
didn't cover in class that I want to cover here is when you if if we put in our limit right here and
we change this to a loop and and we wanted to say um here is the different files that we have in
here and this is like the starting point with our minimum and maximum and we don't know exactly
what that Max is so we add another folder or we had another video uh into our folder and then
you know this is going to change right because the folder is always going to be actually what
we've probably asynchronous update it's going to update anytime we add a new file in there
right and so what I'm going to show you too is if we right click on here and we select chopped to info it gives us this extra box
over here and it looks weird at first but once you drag it it will just pop in there and
this extra box is giving the info of all the information within this folder right so it's kind
of like a breakdown and it's showing you hey the number of roles number of columns the cook times
the frames all the rest of this stuff and cook times in touch designer is really giving you how
long it's going to take right so it's like saying cook time is this amount of time that it's going
to process this and if you have long cook times it's mean it's taking longer so this is another
thing of efficiency to see how your network is working right but what we want here is we want
the number of rows and that's basically going to show in here and saying here's how many rows
are on this right and as we add a new file it will change this number of rows because this is
picking up and saying oh instead of having these um four videos and three pictures which would be
seven files again remember zero to seven kind of weird computer lingo we have eight number of rows
right so in our limit this is a good thing to do where we are taking and if we hit the little
plus button and we add our number of rows and we create to maximum and we do a chop reference
it's giving you this section of saying okay I see what the max is now right so it's going to count
and it's going to then switch and anytime we add a new file it will automatically understand
that the limit of this is set to eight right so we also we're going to change this to zero for
our minimum so we're counting from one two three all the way up to eight which is really just our
seven file so we're going to start through our zero to one two three four five six seven
and we're gonna see and we're gonna might have to adjust this in a second but um so we
have this kind of network right here right so we have this information we have a select
and we need to add our movie player right so in our top then we take our movie file in and
this is what is going to play the different files um and this is what we showed in class
where we did a little python is we're going to select this and under here we're going
to type in our script which is basically the code to say to look into this select chop
right and so we do op which is going to be the operator we then in parentheses type in select
one because that is the name right down here and so we have op impresses
Z select one and then we do bracket and not curly bracket so if you see
there's the little bracket on your keyboard and the curly bracket will have a curl in it
and then we type one and then we um type path and then we close the bracket and this
stuff is important so our apostrophe and um our quotes So this is so it's basically saying
I'm looking at this right here I am going to look for Row one because this is what we want to play
and this is why it says one and it's going to be following in this path right so as we do that we
click it we press return it is now picking that picture which is a PNG and it's saying I'm
seeing this picture because that is Row one so it's not changing anything in the select
because we haven't created anything but we created this but we haven't addressed this
in the slack to create right so we then hit the plus button again we drag our little
second oh you know what I'm going to add one more thing because the case we change
our Network it's always good to add a rename and we put our rename in here and we
are just going to change this to um movie selects so that is now changing the name from a
second and this is in case we wanted to change this value in our select instead
of having a second we were going to check um select like a minute uh and so you could in
here basically say I'm going to take this I'm going to select everything again but then I'm
going to select a minute uh seconds I'm just using an example so we can see as I pointed
out in class so we are going to use slackens to make it quick so we have to wait a minute to
see how the file changes right so we have this we have our Network we have our movie file in and
in our select we after we hit index we want to do the start row index and this is going to say hey
this is the file that I'm looking for right so we take this um oh one more thing we want
to add always as a favorite is our no and this is our end of chain so we we go in
here we select this we take this and we drag it on here and we do our chop reference so as
you can see now it is selecting from our file database the different files within that so it
is playing these files and it's just making a very efficient system to pull data off your hard
drive and not have a bunch of movie files or a bunch of you know picture files uh within your
system right um so again what we did in class is you know we we kind of came up basically with this
network and one thing I'm going to add to this is if you right click on here and you add a fit and
fit is basically like it's going to change the resolution so no matter what resolution you have
in here it's always going to say I'm going to have this equal resolution right so when we make our
networks if we had like a video that was 4K and a video that was uh you know 1920 by 1080 they're
going to be two different sizes and how they go out on your screen could be one could be small one
could be big 1270 by 720 all those different types of things right so we're going to take take
our fit and this is basically saying is this going to fit best or is it going to fit out same
we're going to select fit outside and basically it's always going to whatever resolution you're
setting within your fit is it is always going to be that consistent resolution that's coming
out and you can find this within the common and you can say okay I'm going to do
this resolution or custom resolution and um my custom resolution I could say
I'm going to make this 1920 by 1080. and you can see right off the bat it took our
images that were really a 512 by 512 image and it stretched them to 1920 by 1080. so it filled
the whole screen um so there we have that you know so this is kind of showing basically our
little movie player and and scrolling through these different images and you know within every
second it is changing something right so the other thing that I talked about in class is once we
make this neural network we want to then save this or make this a its own container so right now
InTouch designer it's in our whole project file uh but it's not in its specific base or container
so what we do is we select all this so all our nodes are selected and we right click and we
go to collapse selected once we're in collab selected you will see that we have our little base
container and let's just call this movie player what would be cool is anything in this
movie player but we can make a little um output or a little null in here to show on
that display so what I'm going to do is at the end of this chain I am going to add a null and
not an Oculus Rift I did the wrong one I know that everyone likes my uh search and select
in touch designer so we're going to take this now and we're going to add this to the end of
the chain and we're going to call this BG and there's two things we're doing here we're going
to add an um the null um so this is always going to be a reference of what's inside the network and
then we're also going to um we're gonna add an out right so we have two things coming out of our
fit and really what I wanted to do is have the out on the outside of the no I just double
change myself but you can see so we have BG which is our no which BG stands for background
that's my little acronym for it and then our out is going to be our outlet that when you look in
here you are going to see our out file right here and um why I'm showing this is a double step is
if I click this you would actually see what's playing in here right now because in our common
it is selecting the out as the operator viewer so the operator viewer is what is showed
when you clicked a display within a base um at points when you start to build more Networks
you're going to see where you don't want to always have outs and it's just like cleanliness thing
of where you're selecting networks from other networks um but what I wanted to do is explain
this a little bit of putting this little no and then changing uh your movie player display
so instead of the operator viewer being out one I'm going to change this to BG which I just
created and it's actually doing the same thing right so it's showing the BG on this display but
if I went in here and I deleted my out you will see that it's still showing it so end of chain BG
this is the display there's no Outlet right here um it's a nice clean container that I could come
in here and select this null and move this into another Network and I'll explain that a little
bit more in class so we created this and the one thing is you can see the one thing that
I wanted to describe is I have some pictures playing in here and I have some videos so let's
say I only wanted to have the pictures I can go into my folder and instead of all extensions I can
just say I want to have only image and sections right so now it is just scrolling through our
images and one of the benefits of creating this little info top in here is I also by changing
my limit adjusted this limit to now four right because it's doing a little bit of a calculation
on math because there's four different things because it's seeing again zero and the three
images not to be overly confusing but there's four line items in this folder but there's only
three images so it's saying my maximum value is four so now we are just playing images if we also
go to our folder and we decide to not play the images that we only want the movie extensions you
can see now it is link selecting the four movies and if we look in here again it is showing our
info and in our limit is now showing five because there is four movies right so hopefully this
helped and hopefully this explained a little bit about what we did in class and if you need to
dive back in or you forget what we did or those on Zoom uh can see this uh thank you very much and
looking forward to see you guys in class next week